¹ Better a bit of dry bread in peace, than a house full of feasting and violent behaviour.

¹⁷ Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.

⁹ It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

¹⁹ It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

¹⁶ The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.